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Chad
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a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west
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Senegal
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A country on the coast of West Africa; pop. 10,852,000; capital, Dakar
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Mali
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A landlocked country in West Africa, south of Algeria, in the Sahel except for desert in the north; pop. 11,900,000; capital, Bamako
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Niger
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A landlocked country in West Africa, on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert; pop. 11,360,000; capital, Niamey
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Sudan
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A country in northeastern Africa, south of Egypt, with a coastline on the Red Sea; pop. 39,148,000; capital, Khartoum
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Darfur
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A region in the west of Sudan, an independent kingdom until 1874
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Patriarchal
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characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
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Nuclear Family
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A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit
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Uganda
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A landlocked country in East Africa; pop. 26,404,000; capital, Kampala
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Tanzania
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A country in East Africa, on the Indian Ocean; pop. 36,580,000; capital, Dar es Salaam
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Rwanda
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A landlocked country in central Africa, north of Burundi and south of Uganda; pop. 7,954,000; capital, Kigali
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Burundi
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A central African country on the northeastern side of Lake Tanganyika, south of Rwanda; pop. 6,230,000
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Kenya
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A country in East Africa, on the Indian Ocean; pop. 32,021,000; capital, Nairobi
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Ethiopia
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A country in northeastern Africa, on the Red Sea; pop. 67,251,000; capital, Addis Ababa
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Somalia
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A country in northeastern Africa, on the peninsula known as the Horn of Africa; pop. 8,304,000; capital, Mogadishu
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Djibouti
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A country on the northeastern coast of Africa; pop. 466,900; capital, Djibouti
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Guinea
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a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau
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Cote d'Ivoire
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A West African country that borders Ghana and Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer of cocoa
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Togo
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A country in West Africa with a short coastline on the Gulf of Guinea; pop. 5,556,000; capital, Lomé
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Benin
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A country in West Africa, just west of Nigeria; pop. 7,250,000; capital, Porto Novo
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Nigeria
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A country on the coast of West Africa, bordered by the Niger River on the north; pop. 137,253,000; capital, Abuja
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Gambia
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A country on the coast of West Africa; pop. 900,000; capital, Banjul
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Ghana
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A country in West Africa, with a southern coastline that borders on the Atlantic Ocean; pop. 20,750,000; capital, Accra
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Mali
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A landlocked country in West Africa, south of Algeria, in the Sahel except for desert in the north; pop. 11,900,000; capital, Bamako
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